Inside of a forest filled with misshapen lycopsid-looking trees, the Duchesses
together with the Gate Knights and the Maid Guardians Corps were battling
against a large horde lupine monsters.

It was Kiyomi who was giving out the orders. Surprisingly, she was the raid
coordinator. However, this wasn’t that strange. After all, Kiyomi normally
coordinated her summons’ attack from the rear line, so back in the game, she
usually ended up coordinating the orders when raiding, as the other players
were too busy battling the monsters. Having done this multiple times, she had
picked up the knack of coordinating a raid. This was the first time she
coordinating these many people, though.

With the Knights as the centers, they battled the monster using the classic
Holy Trinity tactics: Tanks holding the enemies, Damage Dealers kills the
enemies and Healers heal and support. Meanwhile, Mizuki and Saki acted as a
kite and off-tank, luring the enemies away from overwhelming the center while the
Guardians and Tsukimi acted as crowd control and eliminate any monster
straggler. Kiyomi’s summons, the 10th Gate’s 『Grimoire Muse(Medea)』 and the 13th Gate’s 『Slime
Empress(Ariane)』, served as the flank guard that eliminate any monster that tries to flank
the group. Except for Saki tendency to go too deep, there was no problem so far
and the group smoothly pushed deeper into the forest.

Meanwhile, the reserve Knights, Yuuto, Chie, Stella, and Ichiko were just walking
and observing the vanguard battling. Since they could just one-shot the monster
in this forest, they left the battle to Kiyomi’s group and the Knights to serve
as live training for them. At first, Yuuto and Ichiko were worried whether the
girls would have a hard time killing the monsters. However, Stella informed
them that he shouldn’t worry about it, since when they encountered monsters in
the forest yesterday, the girls could battle properly. It also helped that RAHO
was a game with semi-realistic monster design, so the girls had been habituated
by the concept of “killing monster”, as they objectify monsters as something to
be eliminated. Perhaps, it would different if the monsters were a cute thing,
though. However, they still didn’t get used by the vivid sense of the wetness
and the scent of the blood. Except or Saki, she always ended up bathed in
blood, due to her extremely close melee battle style. Of course, if a dangerous
enemy appears or large number enemies are attacking from the rear, either Chie
or Stella would eliminate them immediately. But what were they doing in the middle
of the forest?

After the Tinirese Village matters finished. Yuuto sent the girls back
home, while he went with some of the scout Knights to the location where the
Instance was located. Surely enough, it didn’t take long for Yuuto to reach it.
The monster density near the Instance was high, but Yuuto just one-shot them.
After all, back in the game, characters with his DSL battled divine and
mythical beasts every day, so normal monster like this was as easy as turning his
palm around or no sweat, so to speak. The Instance, the Deep Forest of
Devouring Howls, was also very obvious. Different than the normal looking
broadleaf forest, the Instance were filled with lycopsid trees and giant ferns that
wouldn’t be out of place in a Devonian jungle. The trees’ leaves were glowing
in a shade of red and blue, their phosphoresces was a side product from the
mana absorbance.

It was like the jungle from that famous legendary CGI movie, although Yuuto
couldn’t guess why they name this ancient looking forest as Devouring Howls and
he saw no connection between Wolves and Lycopsids… The level visual designer
must thought this look cools and didn’t consult it with the level monster
designer. Anyway, Yuuto must admit, looking it from real was more amazing than just
seeing it from the stereoscopic display in the headgear.

The difference between the Instance forest and the normal forest itself was
also so striking, to the extent, that there was no area where both of the types
of trees mixed with each other. Yuuto wanted to criticize the lack of ecotone,
but it might because normal tree couldn’t grow in area high in mana and vice
versa. Or perhaps lazy level design? Or perhaps some other force plays a part? The
Magic and Life Science Scholar might be interested in studying this.

The air, that came from the Instance, was thick with aberrant mana, the
source of monsters energy. After all, wouldn’t it be strange to answer the
questions of how large amount giant shape monsters get their nourishment
without ruining the ecosystems? Although monsters do and could eat to get
nourishments, most of their energy were obtained from this aberrant mana, the
so-called manasynthesis. This was the reason why monsters usually gathered in
the dungeon and why when they went to an area deficient in aberrant mana (like
near human settlements) they were really aggressive, eat a lot, weaker and exists
in lesser number. Cut from aberrant mana, the monster would weaken. This was
the basis of purification and holy magic.

There was also a low growling sound that intermittently accompanied by howling
sounds. This was the trademark of Deep Forest of Devouring Howls. But unlike in
the game, Yuuto could feel the vivid naked malice contained in that howls. Normal
mortals might be assailed by primordial fear. However, that howls didn’t affect
Yuuto or the scouts. After all, they are not ‘normal’ mortal.

Either way, after doing the preliminary study, Yuuto deemed the Instance to
be relatively safe for the girls (he could one-shot the monsters) and that the
Knights could enter the Instance without a problem. Yuuto was first worried
whether NPC could enter an Instance, but it seems that his fear was
unwarranted. In that case, he could bring a lot of Knights to conquer the
Instance, right? After all, no need to pull punches.

Then afterward, Yuuto and the Knights returned to the Castle before dinner.
There still the work to formalize the annexation and the creation of the Margraviate
of Heitersheim, though, so it wasn’t like he could just rest. Of course, the
actual paperwork would be left to the bureaucrats but it still needs to be
checked and signed by the players as the Ducal Council.

They would also formally hold Maya’s peerage bestowing ceremony and formal
annexation ceremony, later at tomorrow afternoon (3rd day of Ninth
Month), so the castle staff worked all night long preparing the venues and the
foods, of course. After the annexation, they still need to deal with the
economic, law, and political integration. Luckily the small scale size of Neuschwanensee
and the newly created Margraviate of Heitersheim eased the number of documents,
as they could just impose Neuschwanensee’s existing economic and politics frame
and fit it with local form.

Even so, as the Domestic Grand Administrator, Ichiko was quite having a heavy
workload. Meanwhile, as the Foreign and Military Grand Administrator, Yuuto
only needed to draw a scheme to incorporate local militia into existing
Neuschwanensee auxiliary militia structure under a local commander and Maya’s
authority. He already drew a revised military budget for it, but Ichiko had a
cross-eyed when seeing that she need to do another fiscal review again. Yuuto
thought perhaps he needs to do something for Ichiko, sadly he didn’t know left
or right in the economy policies. Perhaps he should give her a Necklace that
has SP consumption decreasing effect as a gift and some SP potions.

Then, after having their dinner (the girls particularly love the Spätzle in
pseudo-udon style, by the way), the girls went to sleep early, except for
Ichiko who soon went to work reviewing the documents for the annexation with
Yuuto. When she went to sleep after midnight, due to the existence of the Small
Sun, the ‘night’ was as bright as a brighter full moon, so Yuuto thought, he
thought why doesn’t he craft potions and tools that might be needed in the Instance
raid tomorrow.

At first, he wanted to use the Roareaves wolf drops to supplement his
steadily depleted raw materials. However, different from the game, the wolves
drops didn’t immediately appear magically like inside the game. The corpses
still exist as corpses inside his inventory. He needs to butcher it to get the
necessary drops like blood gems, magic stones, soul fragments, the skin, etc. Luckily
the NPCs in the castles seems able to perform it, so Yuuto just left the
corpses to them, it would take times until they finished, though. Fortunately,
he had so many potions raw materials in the guild storage that he could use to
make several lifetime worths of potions. Thank you, the me who never throw out
junk drops!

Then the sky brightened as the Big Sun appeared. Luckily, Yuuto had several
a couple hours sleep before breakfast and he had numerous experiences of being
awake overnight to work (not that kind of work, anyway), so he wasn’t that
sleepy. After they eat breakfast (another Spätzle-dominated dish) the group
assembled with the Gate Knights special task force on the West Gate, 200 Gate
Knights. They aren’t just normal Knights, but the Elite of Elites that was
drawn from the entire 20 Regiments. The Three Golden Commanders didn’t follow
the players, though. Freiheit and Lichkeit were left in command of
Neuschwanensee, while Gleichheit was reinforcing the newly annexed Margraviate
of Heitersheim. Even without the Commanders, there is no doubt that the Knights
assembled in this place represented the strongest fighting potential of Neuschwanensee.
Since the future situation might dictate it, Yuuto wanted to know how strong
that fighting potential was. For that reason, the Instance was a right place to
test it out.

The trip to the Instance location was uneventful. Unlike yesterday, the
group didn’t encounter any monsters, perhaps since Yuuto had eradicated most of
the monsters yesterday. They had a side stop in Tinirese Village to inform the
details for the peerage bestowing ceremony and the formal annexation ceremony,
then they have a short visit at the future site of Urlaubshaven. The work in
Urlaubshaven would begin in earnest when the Engineer Corps finished
constructed the new highway connecting Neuschwanensee-Tinirese-Urlaubshaven. Ichiko
didn’t get amused at all, though. It means more paperwork for her side.

The girls were quite happy when they arrived at the Instance. After all,
the Devonian Forest-like Instance really screamed “another world” than the
normal-looking broadleaf forest they had passed until now. Perhaps because the players
were expecting them, “Photograph” was something that exist in RAHO, and so
it wasn’t strange that “Photography” and “Camera” also exists In
Neuschwanensee. Of course different from real world, RAHO version of a camera
was a magic tools that record a light reflection of an object inside a small
crystal which then can be developed into a photo. The crystals was reusable, so
it was like a digital camera. By the way, Yuuto had asked the engineers whether
they can made the crystals record series of image, by doing so he could turn
the photo camera into video camera. But the result was still not satisfactory.

While the girls were preparing themselves, Yuuto took out large carts from
his inventory and created several low leveled golems to pull the carts. The
carts would be filled with monsters corpse or gathered magic herbs from the
forest. Yuuto had enough delicacy to not demand the girls to bring monster
corpses on their inventory.

After their preparation finished, the whole group then entered the Instance
proper. Aerial surveillance conducted by Kiyomi’s summon was inconclusive as
the canopy was too thick to be navigated aerially. However, if their knowledge
about the Instance from the game was correct, then it was clear that they need
to approach the large tree in the center to pummel the Instance boss. The dense
trees prevent straight movement so they could only walk the labyrinth-like forest
path between the trees. They encountered several dead ends and huge monsters
swarm, but so far, their incursion to the middle went well, thanks to the
Twin’s tracking and mapping skills. Mizuki’s 『Scout』 job would point the right path while Tsukimi’s 『Hunter』 would detect any sign of monsters. When she detect any monsters, then the
battle begin… Although perhaps it should be called a live battle training…

“Ah, there some big one
approached from behind!” (Tsukimi)

“Stella-san, if you please.” (Kiyomi)

Tsukimi on the left flank contacted Kiyomi on the center using 『Telephone』 function. Kiyomi’s summon, the 1st Door’s 『Nurtama』, the floating light ball, was floating on top of the Knights group and
served as Kiyomi’s 360-degree eyes. Using telepathic feedback from Nurtama,
Kiyomi knew that far in the back there was a 3 meter tall Roarer Wolfman coming
towards their direction with frightening speed from their rear. This Wolfman
was far stronger than the Knights so it would take a lot of the Knights to deal
with it. Since Kiyomi didn’t have any time or man to spare to deal with it, she
turned towards Stella who walked several paces behind her with Yuuto, Ichiko,
and Chie.

“Ah, alright… 『Vêlage de Glace』. It’s done.” (Stella)

With a reluctance in her tone, Stella pointed her staff towards the monster
and after she spoke the activation word of her custom intermediate-Ice magic, the
Wolfman was quickly covered by thin layer of frost and broke into several pieces.
It was instantly killed just like that. Stella acted as if what she had done
wasn’t a big deal.

“Thank you Stella-san.” (Kiyomi)

Kiyomi properly thanking Stella before returned to her duty coordinating
the battle.

“Ah, it broke into pieces…
Could it still be dismantled, I wonder.” (Yuuto)

“Ah… It’s still in a big piece
I think, at the least, I don’t shatter them into small shards…” (Stella)

“Anyway, everyone, gather the
remnants, please.” (Ichiko)

Accordingly, the rear line Knights began to collect the frozen pieces of
the monster and threw them into a Stone Golem-drawn carts to join its other
wolves comrade. Meanwhile, Stella continued their interrupted conversation.

“Now, what were we talking
again? Ah right… Why are you agreeing with that Mayana girl proposal of
annexation? I mean they belonged to a country, right? Won’t theyir country be
mad to us? This could mean war, right?” (Stella)

“Well…… All peoples have the
right to self-determination; by resp-…” (Yuuto)

“No quoting United Nations
Charter.” (Stella)

“*sigh* Since we need a
friendly local source of information.” (Yuuto)

“I don’t think that the only
reason. After all, if you only need that then we can simply contact the city
near the East Gate. Hmmm, Roka City, I believe.” (Ichiko)

“It’s not because it’s a
request from a beautiful girl, right?” (Stella)

“……………………No.” (Yuuto)

“What with the long pause?” (Stella)

Well, Maya wouldn’t lose to Kiyomi in the looks department, that how’s
outrageous beautiful she is. Even if she wore a fast-food uniform, her selfie
photo would immediately become a viral photo as “fast food goddess”. Yuuto’s
long pause didn’t help, either. Goodness, he was really weak against cute
girls. She just hoped this stereotypic harem-protagonist won’t meet a Boat End.

“Large monsters movement
detected from the side passage.” (Tsukimi)

“Iusticia-san, Stella-san, if
you please.” (Kiyomi)

Stella thoughts was interrupted as Tsukimi once again detected a large
group of Roareaves Wolves and their variants monsters approached from the side
passages. Although the wolves were at the level where the Knight could deal with
them, it would stretch the battle front too much. In a real battle, Kiyomi would
gladly commit some reserve squad to handle it, but this wasn’t a battle, so needless
casualties are needles. Once again, she asked Chie and Stella to handle this.

Chie brandished her Great Blade. A short girl holding a blade much larger
than herself. No matter how many Yuuto saw it, he still couldn’t let out the
sense of mismatch of this sight. Meanwhile, Stella began to point her wand at
the direction of the monsters.

“『Killer Slash: Headless Scream』.” (Chie)

“『Champs de Fleurs Givrées』.” (Stella)

Chie figure flickered as she ended in the middle of the wolves, stabbing her
blade to the ground. Before the wolves could do anything, their head separated
from their body, the lucky one had a huge gash on their neck. Blood sprouted
out from the neck stump or the wound like a grotesque blood fountain. However,
not a single drop of blood landed on her or her surroundings. Truly a surreal scene.

On the other side, the wolves that survived Chie’s onslaught were literally
frozen stiff as their bodies impaled by numerous frozen flowers shaped ice
stake that suddenly appeared on near the ground. The icy flowers were dyed red
from the monster blood, creating a literal a cold and lifeless flower field. As
always, Stella always opts for a showy and stylish magic.

“Thank you Stella-san.” (Kiyomi)

While Chie and Stella returned joined back with Yuuto and Ichiko, Kiyomi
didn’t forget to give her thanks. The Knights rushed to collect the monster
corpse and dump them on the golem carts.

“About your question. The
reason is: since the relationship is unequal.” (Yuuto)

“Unequal? Ah… Because they are
requested us to annex them?” (Ichiko)

“Yes. In this relationship, we
are clearly the party who is on the top and so hold an advantage to them. In
this situation, they would hardly do anything that could harm their standing.
Instead, it was them who would do anything to obtain our support even without
we asked. You won’t bite the hand that feeds you, instead you will do your best
so that hand would keep patting you. If we are the one who approached the other
side, we might be the one in disadvantage. The situation will be different if
it was their side who approached us. So, the situation was convenient, so to
speak.” (Yuuto)

“I see. From their standpoint what
we offered to them was more precious than mere information.” (Ichiko)

“That’s correct. That’s why
there is no reason to reject it.” (Yuuto)

“Isn’t that sounds like we are
the bad guys?” (Stella)

“All is fair in love and war.
Also based on their story, their current ruler is really a tyrant. We are the
lesser than two evils.” (Yuuto)

“It’s still evil.” (Stella)

“No. They will be safer with
us.” (Chie)

“Yeah, at the least we won’t
exploit them like cattle. Right, Yusis-san?” (Ichiko)

“Yup. They will be integrated into
Neuschwanensee society, after all. What your word again. Hmm, “A happy worker
is a productive worker”, or something like that?” (Yuuto)

“I’m glad that you remember
them.” (Ichiko)

“In any case, they will gain
more if they cooperate with us rather than deceiving us. So we could expect
they will become a reliable information source, as a bonus Mayana could serve
as the mediator with the other country. Since she was a former noble, she had
some degree of familiarity with this world aristocratic scene than us. Her
information and knowledge might be useful dealing with any foreign powers. That’s
why rather than Mayana the village girl, I turn her into Mayana the
Marchioness, so she could stand in the spotlight of political stage.” (Yuuto)

“I see… That’s why-” (Ichiko)

‘Information is power.’ This truth never change. The more they know about
this world, the more they can do something about it. That’s why obtaining
Maya’s and Tinirese Village cooperation was an auspicious unexpected event.

“Large amount monster detected
incoming from behind!” (Tsukimi)

“Stella-san, Iusticia-san. If
you please” (Kiyomi)

The conversation got interrupted once more by Tsukimi’s warning. Using the
telepathic visual feedback from Nurtama, Kiyomi could see perhaps a pack of
about 100s wolves approached from the rear. Of course, this situation calls for
a bigger gun.

However before either Chie or Stella could answer, Yuuto draw his blade and
step forward, taking out his Adamantium-Orichalcum alloy blade 『Yobel』.

Yuuto’s sword was enveloped by a swirling violent wind. He then made a dash
towards the center of the wolves pack that began to bare their fangs and claws
against him. But before they able to reach him…

“『Sword Draw: Falling Petals.』” (Yuuto)

Yuuto stopped just right in the front of the wolves made a horizontal slash
at the wolves’ front rank. Just like the skill name, the wolves that were
attacking at the front had their body bisected cleanly in from head to tail and
fall to the ground like scattered petals. Due to 「Sword of Cloud Cleaver」 blade transformation effect, the
range of the long range sword skill 「Falling Petals」 increased by several folds while lessening the attack power. However, the
reduced attack power was already enough to wipe out the wolves. When the wave
blade reached the wolves behind the front, they were also got bisected or
wounded. As the blade wave was sufficiently weakened when it reached the wolves
on the back, some of the wolves were still alive albeit incapacitated or
heavily wounded. The remainder healthy wolves then broke away and escape with
tails on their legs. Yuuto didn’t pursue them. He sheathed his sword and turned
back to join the others, after all, his objective was only to prevent a rear
attack.

“Ah. Since there still some
survivor, please be careful when performing the clean ups.” (Yuuto)

The Reserve Squad Knights gave the coup de grace on the monsters before
throwing their bodies into the carts that slowly but sure began to be filled to
their maximum capacity. Ignoring the monsters interruption as it was nothing, the
conversation resumed.

“So, that’s why you appointed
her as a noble.”

“Yes. After all, we can’t just
appoint a random Joe and Jane[1]
as nobles. We were lucky that she appeared as the right candidate for the
position. If not for her, Margraviate of Heitersheim will not even exist.”

“And I thought that you appoint
her as a noble for personal reason.” (Stella)

“……Just what kind of person I
am in your mind?” (Yuuto)

“You can’t blame her. Fufufu.”
(Ichiko)

“Agree.” (Chie)

“*sigh*… At least, we can also
use the new territory to obtain any materials that Neuschwanensee lacked, and
there is no harm to obtain additional farmlands and population. After all,
additional food and labor are always something welcomed by any nation, right?” (Yuuto)

“I see. It seems we obtain many benefits by
accepting their proposal.” (Ichiko)

“But the demerit is a chance of
a war… What will you do if they declare war on us?” (Stella)

Hearing Stella asking this, Ichiko made a gloomy expression, while Chie
only cast her sight to the ground. Well, the girls certainly felt unease by the
prospect of a war. After all, unlike Raiding Instance, a war means killing
other humans. For someone who lived in a peaceful country, war is something far
removed from them that it seems unreal. Truthfully speaking, the girls want to
avoid any war if it’s possible. Of course, Yuuto was aware of this and so he
had already set up several face-down cards on the table.

“About that matter… I have
been working on it.” (Yuuto)

“Working on it?” (Stella)

“You mean the things you have
been developing?” (Ichiko)

“Is that… those things?” (Chie)

“Those- Ah,…… I see. At the least,
all that budget rerouting is worthy for something.” (Ichiko)

Well. At first, it was just Yuuto curiosity and interest that started his
various projects. However, since they also could be used to augment
Neuschwanensee military power if needed, Yuuto had devoted substantial amount
of personnel and materials for the projects.

“In any case. We will use ‘Deterrence
Theory’.” (Yuuto)

“…If you attack us, we will
retaliate.” (Chie)

“Correct. I hope we would
never use them in real thing, though.”(Yuuto)

Yuuto sincerely believed that for a small country like Neuschwanensee, that
couldn’t scare other countries with just its meager population and only have 8
players, only a credible threat of retaliation to inflict great casualties on
the attacker would be able to deter any sane country leader for attacking. After
all, this was the foundation for the lack of war between modern industrialized
nations.

Of course, Yuuto also knew about the evil twin of Deterrence Theory, ‘the
Arms Race’. It will be a certain fact that the countries of Neuewelt and other
players, if they exist, would try to imitate what Neuschwanensee had done. Considering
the full extent of technology of Neuewelt was still unknown at this point of
time, Yuuto didn’t have the naïve thinking that there would be no one who could
reverse engineered what Neuschwanensee had created. Even so, as long as
Neuschwanensee maintains the technological gap, it would be alright. Even
outdated pieces of technology could be sold to entice and tame allies.

There was the risk that after seeing how dangerous Neuschwanensee could be,
the neighboring countries would create an alliance to wage war against
Neuschwanensee. But in this case, Neuschwanensee could also create their own
alliance. The enemy of my enemies are my friend. Befriend a distant state and
strike a neighboring one.[2]
Perhaps, he could modeled the new alliance using NATO as a model.

“But will they understand what
those things are? It doesn’t seems like this world had ever saw those things,
right?” (Stella)

“That’s why we will do a
demonstration.” (Yuuto)

“Demonstration?” (Stella)

“I will tell everyone, the
details about this in the afternoon.” (Yuuto)

Why modern country perform military parade, air shows, or naval joint
exercises? Although it could be thought as a form of practice for a war, it had
greater political facet of demonstrating a nation’s military prowess to pacify
the public and to impress-intimidate other countries. By doing a demonstration
of what Neuschwanensee capable of, not only it would serve as a warning, but
also as a beacon. The other country wouldn’t be able to keep silent for long,
they must make a stand. Either they will be friendly, neutral or hostile to the
Archduchy Union.

For this reason, the girls’ cooperation was essential. Of course,
explaining about this kind of things wasn’t something that should be done in
the middle of a forest, but in a proper conference room.

“I am sorry Dear Husband, but
it seems that it has passed the 15 minutes mark since the battle begin.” (Kiyomi)

Before they entered the forest, Yuuto and the others decided that if after the
Knights have battled seriously for 15 minutes and yet there was still enemies
remaining, then Yuuto and the others would clean them up. After all, they
didn’t have the whole day just to conquer this instance. They were busy man and
women.

Taking out their respective equipment and turning their 「Limiter」 off, Yuuto led the girls forward towards the huge swarm of wolves and
other monsters. It was suffice to say, for the next hours, no monster dared to
approach them.

Not much Saki this
chapter… She’s the translator favorite character, though.

EXTRA UNNECESSARY
STUFF BELOW

COMPLETE LIST OF
KIYOMI'S SUMMONED SPIRITS / EIDOLONS:

1st
Door: Nurtama (光小玉(ヌルタマ))

2nd
Door: Vivid Aums (真切阿吽)

3rd
Door: Blade Maiden : Brunhilde (刀片の少女(ブリュンヒルデ))

Didn’t have any
relationship to Sun Blade Maiden

4th
Door: Servant Archer : Serpina (家来射手(セルピン))

5th
Door: Cold Lake Fairy: Tatiana (冷湖の妖精(タチアナ))

6th
Door: Tranquil Forest Fairy: Lacme (寧森の妖精(ラクメ))

7th
Door: Sunny Plains Fairy: Iolanthe (晴原の妖精(アイオランシ))

8th
Door: Bountiful Field Fairy: Aida (豊畑の妖精(アイーダ))

All Four Fairies
are Season Fairies

9th
Door: Chorus Angel : Santuzza (合唱隊の天使(サントゥッツァ))

10th
Gate: Grimoire Muse : Medea (奥義書のムーサ(メデア))

11th
Gate: Kind Little Shepherd : Turandot (親切少羊飼い(トゥーランドット))

12th
Gate: Guardian of the Throne : Arandur (王座の守護像(アランドゥア))

13th Gate:
Slime Empress : Ariane (変形虫の女帝(アリアネ))

14th
Gate: Star Orb Maiden : Carmen (星の玉の少女(カルメン))

15th
Gate: Moon Mirror Maiden : Rusalka (月の鏡の少女(リサルカ))

16th
Gate: Sun Blade Maiden: Violetta (日の劍の少女(ヴィオレッタ))

All Three
Maidens are Celestial Regalia Maidens（天体の神器の少女達）

ABOUT THE SUNS

I want to make a
sunrise sunset table of each suns. But I gave up…

Here what you
need to know: Remember that Big Sun in the sky is DAY, Big Sun not in the sky
is NIGHT.

4th Month of
Light-Half – NEW YEAR: Small Sun shining whole night. No dark night! The small
sun shine 600-2800 brighter than Earth Moon (depend on the stars distance as
they orbit each other). Bright enough you can read under its light, but not that
bright that it was useful for photosynthesis.

1st Month of
Dark-Half – Small sun shining close to the dawn to near noon. A period of
darkness exists between after Big Sun sets and before Small Sun rise.

4th Month of
Dark-Half – Small sun only shining together with big sun all day. The night is
really dark. The stars were awesome at this month.

1st Month of
Light-Half – Small sun shining from near noon to before midnight. A period of
darkness exist between after Small Sun sets and Before Big Sun rise.

In other words
the sunrise and sunset of the Small Sun move several minutes forward every day.

RAHO INSTANCE
GUIDE

Deep
Forest of Devouring Howls

Difficulty: ★★★★★☆☆☆

Recommended DSL:
32-48, 3 Join-Parties of 8 players.

Location: World
of Veldtnis, entrance is at the south from Wildmen Village of Buriri. Speak with
Forest Guardian Hugel to enter.

All monster stat
are random and changed every day. The number inside the bracket is just the
recommended DSL level to be able to kill the monster. In case the monster is stronger
than you, just get out of the Instance and try another day, perhaps it will be
weaker than you.

Even, if for the Neuschwanensee it was only a few months ever since the last attack, for the outside countries it has been decades.true they could still use it as a excuse of attack since many feudal families in the past used ancient lineages to claim lands. For example they said that decades ago the lands in question were owned by their families and as such are by birth right theirs. But even so this would only been seen as a excuse and would not be looked well by others, since it was so long ago.

Yet still it is the fact that the whole world tried to attack them several times. Several decades has passed, so who knows, maybe to prevent another attack, nameless state went full "fk you, enougth of this" and striked :D

The other countries tried to it, but they will be careful, most likely they will try to bribe officials of the country to sell any information, but their is the language barrier, they will most likely try to have their daughters marry the arch duck yuki.

Demonstration~I just realized there's the word "Demon" making up DEMONstration.You could make a pun using that~Please make a pun based on that!

.....No, it's a joke. Do not make the pun. Please.

I wouldn't blame the Kingdom if they ended up deciding to fight Neuschwanensee. What happened in the wars aside, at this rate, all the neighboring territories would get annexed to them. These territories would get the benefit of better technology. Chemkla and it's surrounding will be so advanced, they would leave the Kingdom behind in the dust and people would start calling the Kingdom "That place where people are still dumb".

Theyre not aware of how powerful they are compared to the countries surrounding them. Eventually they will find out how OP they really are.

Which makes me wonder who will be their nemesis? Will there be another Gamers Guild from their world to compete with? In 500 years no one has been able to breach their walls. Its not clear if there are beings on that world capable of doing it yet didnt try, so many things to consider.

In overlord, Momonga was constantly on alert for other players from his world, especially when certain legendary weapons were revealed, it was a logical assumption that if he was there, wouldnt others be here as well? If it became an arms race vs another player guild in this story, wouldnt it be wise to seek out Raid instances for possible weapon upgrades and secure them from being conquered by others?

If an arms race is something other countries are willing to invest in, wouldnt Raid instances be a prime source of weaponizing countries to attack them with? Yuuto cant be sure of the kinds of spawns available in this world, if they have things that surpass what they currently have, they have seen some RAHO monsters here, who knows what else came from the game with them?

This world has had a few decades to prepare for another invasion attempt, using history as a guide of what not to do. Now that contact with them is viable, there are more ways to win a war than outright confrontation with military might, in the stories that Yukkuri translates Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki Machiavelli is used to great effect, managing to out play others without using much force at all, a bit like the wind vs the sun in getting a man to remove his coat, the wind tries to force it off, but the sun merely made it too hot for the man to keep his coat on. I wonder if brains over brawn will work against them? having gaming knowledge and Real world knowledge they may end up ruling all, they have many advantages, and obviously they would be quite Cautious, but for how long before they realize they hold this world in their grasp? Much to speculate!

Thank you for creating such an immersive world! this story is so interesting I cant wait for more, happily refreshing this site endlessly till next update :D

Glad to know that Yusis hasn't actually exhausted the guild's stockpile! lolI was really pretty worried in this aspect you know...since the word "restraint" doesn't seem to occur to him when it comes to his prepping (his magitech vehicles obsession and truckloads of arms, potions, and misc consumables) and gifting spree. If I remembered correctly in one of the early chapters he did say he ran out of grade 6 and under materials re-arming and re-supplying the entire Knight's Corps and Militias, guess that didn't include potion ingredients then. Thank God for the existence of renewable resource goldmines in the Instances (though personally I felt the sequence is a bit out of order lol)

I suppose I lean more in favor of Momonga's style of "Meta Otherworldly Guild & Resource Management 101" all covert with expenditures kept to the absolute minimum unless renewable but I get where Yusis's coming from with his own approach to Neuschwanensee's own unique circumstances.Differentiation is a good thing imo.

A few questions and things that crossed my mind,-Does Elemental Smith Art = Spirit Smith Art used in previous chapters? What job does the skill "Falling Petals" come from?-Was Mayana really actually "that" pretty? Kiyomi is Nation's Top Idol level or something with sublime aura and grace by Yusis's own admission (Twice for emphasis). It just never came up before even during the bandits or other neutral POVs. Good job staying composed after getting stabbed by a half-naked beauty of that level then I guess lol-How's the average look of the Neuwelt inhabitants that have appeared in the story so far in comparison?-There was an special intelligence unit called M11 mentioned before, how do they function so far without being able to talk in the native languages? Just remote observations or are they still in training?-...just one last thing. If at all possible I'd love to see some interactions between Neuwelt natives and the run-of-the-mill Neschwanensee's scholars/knights. But I guess that won't be for a while considering the language barriers.

So many other things to ask about the Instance and many other things but I don't want to tempt you into spoiling myself by mistake >__<I'll just wait (impatiently) until after the coast looks relatively clear...

Btw if you'd like a little help with Souma or Yuuto's story, I'm still up for it y'know. Translating or editing, could do a little bit of both.

-Does Elemental Smith Art = Spirit Smith Art used in previous chapters? What job does the skill "Falling Petals" come from?Smith Tier 1 = Smith (normal non-specialized Smith)Smith Tier 2 = Elemental Smith (Yuuto's Tier 2 specialization)Smith Tier 3 = Spirit Smith (Yuuto's Tier 3 Specialization)Falling Petals is belonged to Sword Draw skill sets of Tier 1 Swordsman.-Was Mayana really actually "that" pretty? Kiyomi is Nation's Top Idol level or something with sublime aura and grace by Yusis's own admission (Twice for emphasis). It just never came up before even during the bandits or other neutral POVs. Good job staying composed after getting stabbed by a half-naked beauty of that level then I guess lolShe was indeed pretty. There is a reason why she was the first target for the boss. Also, when she went to the meeting, she had dolled herself, you know, to weaponize her beauty.-How's the average look of the Neuwelt inhabitants that have appeared in the story so far in comparison?More or less same as the Earth. Maya came from good nobility background so she was highly above average. Sefi are also above average (it was the reason why she get chosen as Maya's servant after all), Maya's step sister (Zira) and step cousins (Chiri, Launa) are also above average, because they inherited their grandma gene. This was the reason why Maya and Sefi are 'adopted' as Sanusi's daughter, after all it would be strange if a man have a very beautiful daughter but his other daughter is a 'meh'. -There was an special intelligence unit called M11 mentioned before, how do they function so far without being able to talk in the native languages? Just remote observations or are they still in training?They are like Aliens. They are monitoring you without you knowledge. They observed your behavior, they collect your speech, they took your form and walk right beside you. The truth is out there. In other words, it was a combined long distance and short distance passive observation.-...just one last thing. If at all possible I'd love to see some interactions between Neuwelt natives and the run-of-the-mill Neschwanensee's scholars/knights. But I guess that won't be for a while considering the language barriers.That will be the focus of Chapter 3. We are still in Chapter 2 though...

Yeah I get that Maya's pretty, it's just reading this far... I kinda had this image of Kiyomi being in a different league altogether compared to normal prettiness. So Mayana suddenly being compared to Kiyomi equally kinda stuck out as odd for me.Did I get it wrong?

Somehow in my mind it goes like this...Kiyomi>Other Duchesses>>Guardian Maids>Normal, good looking people of NS=Ridiculously attractive(by their own standards) Neuwelt natives (Mayana goes here)>Mundanely good looking Neuwelt people>everyone else

Even the bandit leader reaction to Florea was way bigger than to Mayana. He was completely taken aback by her when by Yuuto's standards Florea's "just" around a high-spec average Idol level.

If Kiyomi is World Class BeautyMayana is a Country Class BeautyThe other girls and guardian are either between Country to City Class Beauty. Even the girls with most average look: Tsukimi and Mizuki is an idol in their school and local neighborhood and have a face that could be scouted into AKB48 based on their looks alone.If people from NS is in Japan then they will either at Country Class Beauty to City Class Beauty. No one is truly ugly. It was as if all people in NS works in Entertainment World.Normal people from Neuewelt varies from World Class Beauty to 'Beauty only inside their own mind' class. Just like the Earth, but the beauty curve is a bit higher.

Luckily for our protagonists, the standard of the beauty on Neuewelt are not that different than our modern time: ample bosoms (easy breastfeeding), wide hip (easy childbirth), not too skinny, unblemished and soft skin (sign of lack of manual labor --> implies servants --> great wealth), not pale (sign of good health), tidy appearance and combed hair (sign of self-care), and pretty clothes (sign of family wealth).Even rustic rural women do have their 'tricks' to keep themselves.

Hei yukku San!! How come the preview in the last chapter does not match with this chapter.Well anyway Don force yourself to write preview unless youre sure it's going to happen and doesn't limit your ability to write a good Charter.

Ah, you have misunderstand.The preview is for the entire last half of Chapter 2.The North and South Arc. Featuring: First Instant Raid (this part and next part)The Battle of Northern Aggression (several part ahead)and the Sarai-Archduchy 'War' (last part)

You know how I use Chapter X and Part Y, right?I am not lying though....

Another good chapter, after several hours finally reached the last one :(. I liked the side story too so will be looking forward for more of these. I also liked the world created, is very detailed in various ways. Wonder if we will see any picture of the characters. Keep the good work. PD, ended here because of Guro's blog